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April Through the Month of April Beasts, Buildings and Storms – Beth Wittenberg Art Showing
The Franklin Gallery at RiverStones Custom Framing, 33 North Main Street, Rochester. Tuesday through Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am2pm, or by appointment. 812-1488
Thursday 23rd “Marriotts of the Mountains: The Crawford Family, NH’s First Family of Innkeeping”
The Pierce Manse, 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord. 7pm.Lecture presented by Carl Lindblade, who began his hotel career at the Balsams Resort in Dixville Notch and for the past 40+ years has operated 3 and 4 diamond hotels and resorts. Free and open to the public, however, seating is limited. 224-1819
Neil Simon’s “Rumors”
Silver Center for the Arts at PSU, Plymouth.8pm.Presented by Plymouth State University’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. $18/adult, $16/Seniors and youth. 535-2787
enjoying a meal of homemade soup and bread. Guests will get to keep their handcrafted bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. $10pp, $20/family. All proceeds will be donated to two local nonprofit organizations, chosen by Sant Bani students. RSVP to 934-4240. www. santbani.org
NH Boat Museum Spring Fling
The Barn at the Inn on Main, Wolfeboro. 6pm. Evening begins with a cash bar with hors d’ oeuvres, a silent auction and a dinner buffet at 7pm. $45pp/ members, $48pp/non-members. 5694554
Neil Simon’s “Rumors”
Silver Center for the Arts at PSU, Plymouth.8pm.Presented by Plymouth State University’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. $18/adult, $16/Seniors and youth. 535-2787
Saturday 25th ECK Spiritual Chat
The Water Street Café, 141 Water Street, Laconia. 10:30am-Noon. Free and open to the public. Attendees will receive a complimentary free booklet, Spiritual Experiences Guide Book. www.eckankar-nh.org or 800-7138944
Bark in the Park: Canines for K-9
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Rollins Park, Concord. 10am-2pm. Attendance is free at this familyfriendly event! Non-stop programming, demonstrations, competitions and educational opportunities. concordpublicsafety@gmail.com
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Beginner Stained Glass Class – Susanna Ries
Friday 24th Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551 or www. flyingmonkeynh.com
The Pitch Black Ribbons
Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. Catered dinner buffet available before the show. BYOB. $15pp for show. 527-0043
Empty Bowls Dinner – Fundraiser to Help Fight Hunger
Sant Bani School, Sanbornton. Seatings at 5pm and 7:30pm. Live music at 6:15pm. Help fight hunger by
League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. 10am-3pm. This class will show you how to design, cut, foil and solder your own glass panel or ornament. $45 per student, pre-registration required. 279-7920 to register and find out what you are expected to bring to class.
Community Contra Dance
Ossipee Town Hall Gymnasium, 55 Main Street, Center Ossipee. 7-10pm, with the first half hour dedicated to a brief overview of the basic steps of a New England contra dance. Dances
are a fun and energizing night out for all ages and abilities, even if you prefer to cheer the dancers from the sidelines. $7/adults, $5/students, $3/ children under 12. 539-6460
Tuftonboro Town Wide Yard Sale
Maps will be available at Tuftonboro Town Offices, 240 Middle Road, Tuftonboro. 9am-2pm. There will be many individual sites and 2 community sites. 544-3901
Public Breakfast and Bake Sale
Tilton Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 7-9:30am. $8pp. Proceeds benefit the various charities the Lodge supports. 524-8268
JP Soars and the Red Hots
Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. Catered dinner buffet available before the show. BYOB. $25 at the door. 527-0043
Church Yard Sale
Andover Congregational Church, 1 Chase Hill Road, East Andover. 8:30am-2pm. 744-6858
23rd Annual Spring Craft Fair
Somersworth High School, Somersworth. 9am-3pm. Features over 100 of the best crafters in all of NH, Maine, Vermont and MA. 6925869
Neil Simon’s “Rumors”
Silver Center for the Arts at PSU, Plymouth. 2pm and 8pm. Presented by Plymouth State University’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance. $18/adult, $16/Seniors and youth. 535-2787
Sunday 26th 20th Annual Model Train Show
Hooksett Cawley Middle School, 89 Whitehall Road, Hooksett. 10am3pm. The Hooksett Lions Club model train show features a large array of operating layouts of various scales, 50+ vendors, clinics, train videos, kids activities and much more! $4/adults, $1/children ages 6-12, children 5 and under are free, or a $10/family rate. 485-3881
Keefe House Gallery Open House and Unveiling
The Woodman Museum, 15 Summer Street, Dover. Noon-3pm. Visit NH’s newest professional Fine Art gallery. The gallery will be open to the public, free of charge from Sunday, April 26th through Sunday, June 28th during regular Woodman Museum hours. 742-1038
Beadweaving: Celllini Spiral Bracelet Class
League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. Noon-4pm. Class taught by juried artist Deb Fairchild. Previous beadweaving is helpful. Students should bring eyeglasses or magnifiers if they use these for close work. $35pp plus a $20 materials fee. Pre-registration is required. 279-7920
Wednesday 29th Cribbage Tournament
Patrick’s Pub, Gilford. Registration 6:30-7pm. Games start at 7:15pm. Weekly cash prizes. Fundraiser to benefit the Café Déjà vu Pub Mania team for the NH1 Children’s Auction. Every Wednesday until June. 9981418
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Spring Craft Fair in Somersworth On Saturday, April 25, there will be a Spring Craft Fair at Somersworth High School, 11 Memorial Drive, Somersworth from 9am-3pm. Featuring over 100 of the best crafters in New England. Park your car and shop in the High School where you will be able to buy from talented crafters to your heart’s content. Delicious food will be served by The Somersworth Festival Association volunteers offering both breakfast and lunch at reasonable prices.
VynnArt in Bloom Exhibit Opens Several of the local artist’s from VynnArt Gallery in Meredith will display their floral works in a Fine Art Show called “VynnArt in Bloom”. Over fifty Floral paintings in all mediums; oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, drawings and photography will be featured at the show. Prints and artist’s greeting cards will also be for sale. This is a great opportunity to shop for the perfect Mother’s Day gift. This Second Annual Exhibit and Art Sale opens on Thursday, April 30th with a reception and an opportunity to meet and talk with the artists from 4:00pm until 7pm The show will continue on Friday, May 1st through Sunday, May 3rd from 10am until 5pm. Each day exhibiting artist’s will be at the gallery to paint and draw still life displays set up by Moulton Farm (18 Quarry Rd., Meredith), Cackleberries Garden & Gift Shop (419 Daniel Webster Highway), and The Community Garden Club of Meredith (meredithgardenclub.org). “I have seen several of the paintings that the artist’s have created exclusively for this show and it immediately made me feel that warm weather is finally here. This show is a great place to see how much local talent exists in the Lakes Region” say Gallery owner, Vynnie Hale. “VynnArt in Bloom” is free to the public. VynnArt Gallery and Art Supplies is located on 30 Main Street, just above Mill Falls Market Place. For more information about the “VynnArt in Bloom” Exhibit please call (603) 279-0557.
Meredith Fashion Show “Meredith Dressed Up”, a Fashion Show, featuring local businesses, will be held Thursday, April 30th at 6:30pm in the Winnipesaukee Ballroom at Church Landing. Hosted by the Greater Meredith Program, proceeds will benefit Meredith’s 250th Anniversary Celebration. The evening will start with a cocktail hour and hors d’oeuvres and will include a wine tasting from Hermit Woods Winery and assorted miniature desserts from Kara’s Café. Door prizes and a silent auction will be offered. Tickets are $50.00 and include one drink voucher. A collection of apparel from Meredith Village shops will be modeled by local residents. Businesses participating in the fashion show include Winni Denim and Supply Co., Adornments, Lady of the Lake, Bella Beads, The Guest House, A Creative Studio, Great Northern Trading Co., Providence, Gallery 51, The Country Carriage and Bootleggers. For reservations go to www.greatermeredithprogram.com Gather some friends and enjoy an evening of fashion and fun!
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Now that the New Hampshire Lottery Commission has extended their olive branch to me in the form of a lottery ticket that is supposed to smell like bacon, I have thought long and hard for close to an hour and I have decided that in good faith I will once again submit to them some of my fantastic ideas for lottery tickets. It has been a long time since I began my boycott realizing that they weren’t going to use any of my ideas and in that span I have come up with a few doozies (whatever that means) that I have just been dying to reveal. This time of year is perfect for new scratch tickets since not only are the natives anxious for new ways to waste their money, but more and more warm season visitors will be flocking to the area with some disposable income to throw away. It is well know that the sales of lottery tickets benefit education in New Hampshire. (The incredible odds of actually winning on the things are never taught in math class‌.coincidence?) It is a lesser known fact that the sales of lottery tickets are also essential to the strength of the convenience store industry in the state and is also key in keeping many in waste management employed with the continuing need to carry the tons of losing tickets away to the recycling centers.
So, as you can see, keeping lottery tickets fresh and their sales vibrant plays an important part in the New Hampshire economy. That is why I am happy to submit, free of charge, some new ideas for lottery tickets. With the ongoing controversy of naming things the state something or other, this would be a great time to take advantage of that theme in lottery tickets. There could be different tickets for different things to be named. There would be nine concealed squares with three of each possibility on each ticket. You can only scratch off three. If those three match exactly the same “thing� you can bring back it to your local convenience store for a ten dollar prize (or ten more scratch tickets, which is their hope). The winning tickets will then be sent to the State House to be counted and the ones with the “thing� with the most winners will be designated the state something or other. In all fairness, this ticket should be allowed to be sold to elementary school children so they can participate as well. It will not only make them part of the process but will also show them how difficult it is to actually win on scratch tickets saving them from continuing with this fruitless endeavor as they get older. It’s a win-win (as opposed to a win-lose or a lose-lose or a lose-win) and makes the sale of the ticket helping educate kids in two different ways. Seeing that the Lottery Commission is all giddy over their “I Heart Bacon� scratch ticket which, when scratched, smells like something, though I’m not sure what, they should definitely take advantage of that during the warmer months with the influx of tourists.
Working in tandem with the NH Department of Travel and Tourism (DTT), they can collect not only the obnoxious nine percent room and meals tax that keeps the DTT funded but also increase sales of lottery tickets with the “Live Free and Scratch and Sniff� campaign. After a customer sits down to eat at a local restaurant, they will have the opportunity to buy a scratch ticket that, when scratched, smells like the item on the menu they are thinking of ordering so they can make a better choice. Not only will they experience the smell but, if they scratch three matching symbols of that item, they will win a free dessert (the cost of which will be deducted from restaurant’s tax payment to the state). The thinking here is that it will get more people going out to eat who will buy more than just one “scratch and sniff� ticket in the relentless and fruitless pursuit of trying to win a free dessert. Of course, after failing at getting three matching symbols, they will then be so obsessed with the dessert they will just buy one, increasing their bill giving more money to the restaurant and in turn the DTT as well as the Lottery Commission. It’s a win-win-win deal. Of course this process will be complicated to organize and cost tons of money for the Lottery Commission to implement and will eventually cause big problems in their budget, but, hey, they are a state agency so those things are left to be worried about only after it reaches a critical mass. So there are my ideas for now. I have a few more but my head is starting to hurt. I’ll get back to you soon.
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Letter To Honorable Members of the House Judiciary Committee My name is David Saad. I live in Rumney NH and for the last 3 years I have served on the Rumney Planning Board. I ask you to oppose SB 243 which makes changes to the right-to-know law section RSA 91A:3. RSA 91-A Preamble states: “Openness in the conduct of public business is essential to a democratic society. The purpose of this chapter is to ensure both the greatest possible public access to the actions, discussions and records of all public bodies, and their accountability to the people.� Often, the most important issues to citizens and taxpayers are also the most controversial and divisive. At times, the citizens and taxpayers may be at odds with their elected officials. This democratic process plays itself out during open and transparent public meetings. However, SB 243 jeopardizes this openness and accountability to the people because this bill would allow any single member of the public body to draft a letter simply stating that they have a claim or threaten litigation against a citizen/taxpayer and effectively, that single member of the public body can now require that all future discussions regarding that topic be done in a nonpublic session, even
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if that single member has no intention of ever filing any claim. Thus, a single member of the public body can force discussion of any controversial topic into nonpublic session as long as they are willing to make a claim and put it in writing. For example, if a taxpayer feels that municipal funds are being misspent and publicly criticizes a public official for misappropriation of funds, the official can now draft a letter threatening to sue the taxpayer because of their public criticism and effectively squelch any further discussion of the misappropriation of funds issue during public meetings. Thus, a pen and piece of paper is all that is needed to subvert the public’s right to know. SB 243 lets public officials with something to hide do just that. Please uphold the spirit of RSA 91-A and insure the greatest possible public access to the actions, discussions and records of all public bodies, and their accountability to the people by opposing this bill. Thank you, David L. Saad Rumney NH.
Senate Bill 137 To The Editor: Recently, the New Hampshire Senate voted unanimously to support legislation which will ensure affordable access to potentially lifesav-
This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
ing cancer treatments for Granite Staters. The Senate’s support of this bill, which would prevent health insurers from charging a higher costshare for an oral anticancer medication than for one administered by IV, is a step in the right direction – but there is still work to be done, as the bill must now be voted on by the House of Representatives. Oral treatments can offer patients advantages over traditional IV chemotherapy, including the fact that they are targeted therapies which attack only the cancer cells. Oral chemotherapy also offers the flexibility and convenience of not having to drive long distances to a treatment facility for IV infusions. For the over 8,000 people who will be diagnosed with cancer in New Hampshire this year alone, it is imperative that the House of Representatives vote in support of this legislation, SB 137. It simply isn’t fair that any cancer patient would have to forgo the most effective course of treatment due to out of pocket costs. I urge all members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives to support Senate Bill 137. Gary Maheu Laconia, NH.
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Using climbing skins on her split-snowboard, Becca Monroe makes her way up Mount Cardigan via the Alexandria Ski Trail. The Civilian Conservation Corps cut the Alexandria Ski Trail in 1934 and it is considered the most challenging of Cardigan’s winter trails. The trail runs between from Grand Junction to just below the Fire Warden’s Cabin. While skiers and snowboarders raced to Tuckerman Ravine, we decided to take advantage of the lingering snow on Mount Cardigan. Maple syrup farmers and spring skiing enthusiasts like the same weather. Cold nights and warm days not only makes the sap run but it makes for great snow conditions. We met at the AMC’s Cardigan Lodge at 8am. The dirt road to the lodge was still partly frozen and would surely be a muddy mess by the time we would be headed home (it was). My friend, Becca Monroe, loves snowboarding Mount Cardigan’s classic ski trails. When the trails were first laid out and then cut by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930’s they had only skiers in mind. The trails have good steady grades, nice sweeping turns and have widths that vary between 10 and 40 feet. They’re actually pretty snowboard friendly and
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Poverty Voyeurism Gwynnie P is down with the struggle, comrades. She may make $19 million a year, own mansions in London, New by Michelle Malkin York, BrentSyndicated Columnist wood, Malibu and the Hamptons, charge $550 for her Goop.com “travel backgammon set,” and fly by private jet, but she feels your pain. OK, it’s not as painful as her last $5,200 Thermage session in Santa Monica, but still, she really, really does feel the agony of the ordinary. Last week, the progressive princess celebrity joined the “SNAP challenge.” It’s basically the ice bucket challenge for bored Hollywood liberals and media-hungry Democratic politicians. For seven days (or at least for an hour or two after they publish their announcements to Twitter and Facebook), the bleeding hearts play “poor” by subsisting on a faux welfare budget. Paltrow was invited to join the poverty voyeurism racket by her good friend Chef Mario Batali -- last seen eating his way through Spain with G-Pally for a 13-part PBS TV series. What, you don’t have a chef bestie to motor around in a Mercedes with across Galicia and Cordoba as you savor almejas, salmorejo and flamenquines? When these self-indulgent stars are not binging on European delicacies, they’re purging themselves of liberal guilt with phony gimmicks like the SNAP sanctimony. The idea, Batali ex-
plains, is to “walk in the shoes of” millions who rely on government assistance to supplement their household budgets. Fortunately for Paltrow, this doesn’t mean she has to give up her $1,200 pair of Tom Ford black platform heels or anything else in her well-appointed shoe closet. All she had to do was snap a Vogue-ready photo of her $29 haul of austerity grocery items (likely purchased by one of her many private kitchen assistants at an organic food market in West L.A.) Pobrecita. Everyone on the planet except for rail-thin Paltrow seems to have understood the hilarity of Hollywood’s most famous detox dieter -- whose calorie intake rivals an earthworm’s -- pretending to have the sads over her SNAP menu: seven limes, a tomato, one head of garlic, a bunch of scallions, bags of brown rice, black beans and peas, a package of corn tortillas, one avocado, a yam, an ear of corn, a dozen eggs, and bunches of kale, lettuce and cilantro. Pepper Potts’ public relations stunt inspired global derision from the hoi polloi of all political persuasions. Lefties excoriated the privileged starlet for making a mockery of genuine anti-hunger efforts. Righties debunked her dubious statistics low-balling SNAP benefits for a family of four. And moms and dads across America helpfully offered cost-cutting grocery lists of their own. “A 20-pound bag of rice, a few bags of various kinds of dried beans, supplemented with some chicken breast ($1.99/pound on sale at my local supermarket), and she’s all set,” one savvy shopper wrote.
Hillary Clinton’s Joyless Ride
You can never know what that wacky Hillary Clinton will do next. At the outset of her latby Rich Lowry est presidential Syndicated Columnist campaign, she decided to drive from New York to Iowa for her first campaign stop. Or, to be more precise, she decided to be driven to Iowa by a Secret Service agent as part of a three-car caravan in keeping with her security needs. For a former first lady and global celebrity, this is traveling light and spontaneous -- let’s load up the Secret Service detail and blow this joint. Her campaign referred to her vehicle as “her Scooby van,” evoking the lovable madcap crew of the cartoon series. This could be considered a cute little affectation, until you realize that she campaigned in a van in her 2000 See malkin on 26 Senate race, and for the same
reason: to appear more relatable (the Secret Service reportedly referred to that vehicle, too, as the Scooby-Doo van). Hillary Clinton has been reintroducing herself to the public for so long that even her manufactured stabs at authenticity aren’t entirely new. Of course, the image she is trying to live down is the Hillary of the “Saturday Night Live” sketches, with her gratingly insincere laugh and her cringeinducing blatant calculations. It is her curse as a politician of stamina and determination, but not of natural grace, that her maneuvers to reveal her “real” self always feel like obvious maneuvers. To say that she lacks the light touch is almost as much of an understatement as saying her husband is not a monk. Hillary’s worst moments on her book tour last year were her exaggerations, from the heights of her power, fame and wealth, of See lowry on 28
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Vietnam Debacle 1975--Imagine a Different Ending UNITED NATIONS - It’s been forty years since the wars in Indochina ended and the curtain dropped ushering in a by John J. Metzler new period of Syndicated Columnist darkness for the people of Vietnam and Cambodia. Four long decades since the stunning imagery of North Vietnamese tanks smashing through the gates of Saigon’s Doc Lap Independence palace seizing the South Vietnamese capital, ending the decades long war, and bringing forcible reunification by the communists to the divided nation. For America the politically divisive conflict was over, the page turned, and the book shelved. For the Vietnamese, and even more so for the beleaguered Cambodians, a new level of hell was about to begin in 1975. Many people know the narrative which has now become fuzzy or bypassed by the march of time. American troops had already been withdrawn from South Vietnam by 1973 and thus the devastating defeat of the Saigon government by a massive North Vietnamese conventional offensive between February and April, was not as many glibly claim, a defeat of U.S. forces. Yet it posed a grim geopolitical setback for the USA. But let me digress from events to imagine for a moment what could
have happened, and may have transpired if the North Vietnamese had abided by the U.S. negotiated Paris Peace agreements in 1973 which should have stopped the military conflict, ensured a ceasefire, and allowed South Vietnam’s survival. Consider another divided nation, Korea to see my thesis. Here too a historic nation was arbitrarily divided when Dean Rusk drew the line at the 38th parallel at the end of WWII. North and South Korea, which had endured Japanese colonialism, were now free but separated by two antagonistic governments. After the horrors of the Korean War (1950-1953), the tenuous peace held. Both the communist North and free South Korean states developed separately. But here’s the point; a rising Phoenix of economic development and prosperity took hold in South Korea through the 1960’s and 1970’s . South Korea successfully hosted the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and had emerged as an East Asian tiger economy. Political democratization had taken root by the late 1980’s and has flourished ever since. So here’s my question. Viewing the South Vietnam of 1975, what if both North and South Vietnam developed separately economically, with political antagonism but not conflict? A bit like West and East Germany or Mainland China and Taiwan? By 1975, and despite the ongoing conflict, South Vietnam was still
ahead of the North. As long as the Saigon government could develop its socio/economic base free from both Viet Cong insurgency and the threat of a large scale conventional North Vietnamese onslaught, something similar to South Ko-
rea’s post-1953 economic revival could have happened. Though South Vietnam’s economy was weak in the aftermath of years of war, with a cease-fire which held, and supported by a
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The New Inquisition How long will this country remain free? Probably only as long as the American people value their freedom enough to defend it. But how many by Thomas Sowell people today Syndicated Columnist can stop looking at their electronic devices long enough to even think about such things? Meanwhile, attempts to shut down people whose free speech interferes with other people’s political agendas go on, with remarkably little notice, much less outrage. The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting the tax-exempt status of conservative groups is just one of these attempts to fight political battles by shutting up the opposition, rather than answering them. Another insidious attempt to silence voices that dissent from current politically correct crusades is targeting scientists who do not agree with the “global warming” scenario. Congressman Raul Grijalva has been writing universities, demanding financial records showing who is financing the research of dissenting scientists, and demanding their internal communications as well. Mr. Grijalva says that financial disclosure needs to be part of the public’s “right to know” who is financing those who express different views. He is not the only politician pushing the idea that scientists who do not march in lockstep with what is called the “consensus” on man-made global warming could be just hired guns for businesses resisting government regulations. Senator Edward Markey has been sending letters to fossil-fuel companies, ask-
ing them to hand over details of their financial ties to critics of the “consensus.” The head of the National Academy of Sciences has chimed in, saying: “Scientists must disclose their sources of financial support to continue to enjoy societal trust and the respect of fellow scientists.” This is too clever by half. It sounds as if this government bureaucrat is trying to help the dissenting scientists enjoy trust and respect -- as if these scientists cannot decide for themselves whether they consider such a practice necessary or desirable. The idea that you can tell whether a scientist -- or anybody else -is “objective” by who is financing that scientist’s research is nonsense. There is money available on many sides of many issues, so no matter what the researcher concludes, there will usually be somebody to financially support those conclusions. Some of us are old enough to remember when this kind of game was played by Southern segregationist politicians trying to hamstring civil rights organizations like the NAACP by pressuring them to reveal who was contributing money to them. Such revelations would of course then subject NAACP supporters to all sorts of retaliations, and dry up contributions. The public’s “right to know” has often been invoked in attempts to intimidate potential supporters of ideas that the inquisitors want to silence. But have you heard of any groundswell of public demand to know who is financing what research? Science is not about “consensus” but facts. Not only were some physicists not initially convinced by Einstein’s theory of relativity, Einstein himself said See Sowell on 26
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Everyone loves the hummingbird. It is a marvel of nature. In the wild, the hummingbirds have two major sources of food: flower nectar and small insects, such as gnats and spiders, which provide protein. In fact, you could classify the hummingbird as a carnivorous bird. It only uses the nectar to provide the energy necessary to hunt insects. They pick their insects from flowers or grab them out of the air as they dart around looking for nectar. Hummingbirds will readily use a nectar feeder, and since most of the daylight hours are devoted to finding nectar, you really should have one or more of these specially designed feeders in your yard. There are two basic feeder styles: saucer and vacuum. The latter comes in a wide range of capacities, materials and designs, and is easily hung from a tree limb or pole. It also can be mounted directly to the outside of a window. Saucers are basin feeders covered by a lid with several feeding ports. The lids lift completely off for easy cleaning. When you shop for a new hummingbird feeder, here are some useful tips: Bees and ants are attracted to the same sugarwater mixture as hummingbirds, creating a nuisance to feeding birds. In fact, when ants craw into the nectar and die, they release formic acid, fouling the solution. Hummingbirds will taste this and leave your feeder. Stop
ants by putting a barrier, such as a water-filled device called an ant cup, between the ants and nectar. Bees and wasps have short mouthparts, so bee guards over the end of the feeding tubes interfere with their reach. Choose a feeder that matches the number of hummingbirds available to feed in your area. In New England, it is more appropriate to have many, small capacity feeders than one large feeder. East of the Mississippi River, there is only one hummingbird species, the ruby-throated. This bird is extremely territorial and will refuse a spot on a feeder for any other ruby-throated hummingbird, even its mate. Hummingbird feeders usually are made of plastic or a combination of glass and plastic, the variable being the nectar container. Glass containers are more durable and scratch resistant, but plastic won’t shatter if it hits the floor. You will be doing lots of filling and cleaning, so make sure you can take the feeder apart easily to reach all parts to scrub thoroughly. Hummers do not find dirty feeders appealing, and old nectar can be dangerous to their health. Fill the feeder with a solution of one part sugar to four parts of water, a ratio that approximates the sugar content in many flowers favored by hummingbirds. Never use honey or artificial sweeteners in place of sugar. It is not necessary to add red food coloring because there is sufficient red on most feeders to attract the bird’s attention. Place different hummingbird feeders out of view of each other, increasing your odds for more of these winged jewels. Enjoy your birds
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Friends of Wolfeboro Town Hall Launch “TAKE A SEAT” Campaign With the Wolfeboro Town Hall rehabilitation project well underway and steady progress being made toward a fall re-opening, the Friends of Wolfeboro Town Hall is launching an effort to purchase seating for the second floor Great Hall. With the “TAKE A SEAT CAMPAIGN,” the Friends seek to raise $40,500 in private funds to purchase 200 chairs and balcony seating. Funds for seating for the Great Hall are not included in the building rehabilitation budget. The second floor Great Hall will be re-opened for the first time in many years providing a large, aesthetically pleasing and adaptable space for hosting public meetings, concerts, lectures, children’s programs, art exhibits, and other events. The fact that the Great Hall will not have fixed seating means it can be
The Friends of Wolfeboro Town Hall seek to raise $40,500 in private funds to purchase 200 chairs and balcony seating. adapted to a wide range of community uses. After researching sev-
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and sturdiness and can be stacked when not in use. The goal of the “TAKE A SEAT CAMPAIGN” is to raise funds by early summer in order to have the 200 chairs and balcony benches manufactured, delivered and installed in time for the re-opening of Town Hall. A contribution of $200 will fund a chair. Donations in any amount are welcome. The Friends of Wolfeboro Town Hall hopes that interested individuals and businesses will fund the purchase of a single chair, a pair of chairs, or even a dozen chairs. Donations in any amount may be sent to the Friends of Wolfeboro Town Hall, PO Box 901, Wolfeboro,NH 03894. Donations using a credit card may be made by visiting the Friends’ website at www.wolfeborotownhallfriends.org.
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FRM Scandal- If SB 155 Doesn’t Pass – Where Do the Victims Go? Those frequent readers of this column know well my feelings toward the State of NH government agencies by Niel Young Advocates Columnist that misused their positions. It is my honor to bring parts of the testimony in favor of SB 155 from former Senate President Peter Bragdon. Here is most of that letter of support for SB 155: “I write to you in support of SB 155, a bill establishing a recovery fund for the victims of the Financial Resources Mortgage (FRM) fraud. This is an issue for which I sponsored legislation my final term in the state Senate, and an issue in which I still believe strongly. “Victims of the FRM fraud have been portrayed as knowing investors in a Ponzi scheme. That is incorrect. They were, in fact, lenders on various real estate projects, with the loans secured by mortgages on the property. It is important to note that the FRM victims did not lend money to FRM itself. Instead, FRM connected lenders with borrowers, typically developers for short-term loans secured by recorded mortgages. “When FRM collapsed, the NH Banking Department of Justice forced the company into bankruptcy, and the trustee forced the victims to relinquish their mortgages or risk being treated as principals in the FRM fraud. This rash decision by state regulators made it impossible for most FRM victims to recover their money. One of two FRM victims fought the bankruptcy and won after a prolonged and costly legal battle. The ruling came too late for the vast majority of the victims, however,
who had been coerced into signing settlements. “But when a person suffers a financial loss at the hands of a state-licensed and state-regulated entity that is in clear violation of state laws and rules and the regulating agency fails to act on those violations, and in fact tells people inquiring that the company is fine, then I think we’ve crossed the line where state recovery assistance should at least be considered. “As the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already conceded, the DOJ clearly failed in their client counseling obligations (to other state agencies) relative to FRM.” The DOJ was provided with information about FRM’s criminal activities by one of their own former attorneys and no significant action was taken. These were “significant” opportunities lost by DOJ and a serious failure of the department.” “The overall financial health of FRM was never adequately analyzed by the NHBD.” FRM was examined by the NHBD seven times over the 9 years prior to its collapse. “During these seven examinations, FRM was cited for over 70 violations.” More than once during these examinations, FRM, was not even able to produce a balance sheet or income statement, but yet they were allowed to stay in business and prey upon NH citizens. Here we have a situation where a regulated entity (FRM), with numerous violations, that could not even produce a balance sheet or income statement to its regulator (THE NH Banking Department), and was working with an unregistered service company (CL&M) that the NH Banking Department knew existed (and I believe was located in the same building), but did not investi-
gate, was allowed to continue operations and eventually morph, with CL&M’s assistance, into a massive criminal enterprise. The SECOND was done when the state regulators, who had been asleep at the switch for years, finally woke up and rashly decided to hand things over to federal bankruptcy officials, who then victimized the FRM lenders a second time by taking away their legitimate mortgages, through coercion. Sen. Bragdon quoted NH Sec. of State Bill Gardner in this portion of his letter. ******** More nonsense from the Government Indoctrination Centers: “Are you transgender? Vermont Agency of Education wants to know By Bruce Parker Vermont Watchdog: As the governor and Legislature weigh cuts to close a $113 million budget gap, the Vermont Agency of Education is spending more than $23,000 to find out if Vermont school kids as young as 10 are transgender, among other things. “The Vermont School Climate Survey, which was developed over the past few months at the request of Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe, seeks to help school administrators know more about the student learning environment. “The online survey is nearing completion in 12 pilot schools and uses funds from the High School Completion Program. Based on nearly 50 questions put to students, researchers hope to gather data on bullying, cyberbullying, sexual identities, race and even guns from children as young as 10 years of age.” And the beat goes on. How many surveys must be done? What specifically are they looking for, and do they ever have a plan to fix what needs fixing?
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her snowboard into two pieces. She slaps climbing skins onto the bottom of each piece and then switches her snowboard boot bindings into climbing mode and she is good to go. I am impressed how quickly she changes her equipment into climbing gear and back to a snowboard. Not as quick as I am able to click in and out of telemark gear, but this gave me time to practice ripping off or putting on my skins without removing my skis from my feet. I got a little less clumsy at it. The Cardigan Lodge looked like it had a good number of guests judging by the number of cars that appeared to have
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been parked overnight. But we didn’t see anyone outside and we didn’t see any fresh tracks in the snow as we headed up the trail. We decided we would ski the Alexandria Ski Trail first. We skinned up the Holt-Clark Cutoff and Clark hiking trails all the way to the Warden’s Cabin. We were only 2/10ths of a mile from Cardigan’s summit but the open ledges were still covered with ice and it didn’t seem worth the risk and effort to go any higher. The early morning wind was chilly and we used the cabin as a wind block while we changed our clothes and gear. Down the trail we went on the firm snow and we broke
During the same year that the ski trails were being cut on Mount Cardigan, the Appalachian Mountain Club purchased 500 acres of land and named it the Cardigan Ski Reservation. Today more than 1,200 acres make up the Cardigan Reservation and it has been the home to the AMC’s Cardigan Lodge for more than 80 years. The Cardigan Lodge offers many summer recreation opportunities too, learn more at the AMC’s website at Outdoors.org.
Winter trails crisscross the east side of Mount Cardigan through open woods. There are more than 50 miles of hiking trails on Mount Cardigan in Orange, NH. through a thin ice crust as we turned our boards. The turns and steep drops
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Trail. As we neared the Lodge I was carrying good speed and I decided to skid across the bare wood bridge to the other side of Bailey Brook. Becca followed me and her wider snowboard halves came to
a quick stop in the middle of the bridge. I have no idea how she did it but she managed to stay on her feet and not go swimming. Truly it was a beautiful exciting day on Mount
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trail from where we just came down. At one time there was a rope-tow here at Duke’s Pasture and parts of the contraption can be seen rusting away up on side of the ski trail. Duke’s Ski Trail is not as steep and curvy as the Alexandria Ski Trail but it has splendid old school character. You can easily imagine using long wood skis and wearing short leather boots while having a joyous time bopping down this ski run. By mid morning the sun was shining brightly and we stripped down to our short sleeve shirts. Amazing how quickly the day can warm up. We passed a few people making their way up the trail and then
two young men came skiing down past us. This was the biggest crowd we encountered the entire morning. Duke’s tops out on the open ledges just below the summit of Firescrew. We enjoyed a clear grand vista of the many surrounding mountains. The trip back down seemed to zip by too quickly. We had fun turning in the soft granular snow. Up high there was more than a foot of snow but down below the snow was thin on Duke’s Pasture. By the end of the day the bare spots would grow large and it wouldn’t be long before it would all be melted away. To round out our adventure we decided to head back up the Kimball
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RiverRun Bookstore, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth. 6pm. Novelist Lisa Shapter will read from and sign her new book, “A Day in Deep Freeze”. Free and open to the public. 431-2100
Thursday 30th Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting
Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 7-9pm. Members – Planning Meeting. Persons of any experience level are welcomed. www.lrcameraclub. com
Rummage Sale
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-6pm. 9687643
Meredith Dressed Up – Fashion Show
Winnipesaukee Ballroom at Church Landing, Meredith. 6:30pm. The evening will start with a cocktail hour and hors d’ oeuvres and will include a wine tasting from Hermit Woods Winery and assorted miniature desserts from Kara’s Café. Door prizes and a silent auction will be offered. $50pp (includes one drink voucher). Proceeds will benefit Meredith’s 250th Anniversary Celebration! For reservations go to www. greatermeredithprogram.com
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VynnArt, 30 Main Street, Meredith. 4-7pm. Over 50 floral paintings in all mediums; oils, water, acrylic, pastel, drawings and photography will be on display. Prints and artist’s greeting cards will also be for sale. The show will continue thru Sunday, May 3rd. 2790557
May Through June 24th Quilts of World War II Display
The Wright Museum of World War II, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. See an array of over twenty authentic WWII quilts made by the “greatest generation of women”, who brought the art of quilting to a new generation of Americans; and in the process made an important contribution to the war effort. www.wrightmuseum. org or 569-1212 Friday 1st
Rummage Sale
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-2pm. 9687643
Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo
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Squam Lakes Science Center’s Trails Open
Squam Lakes Science Center, 23 Science Center Road, Holderness. 9:30am-4:30pm (last trail admission at 3:30pm). May 1st marks the beginning of the 49th trail season. The Science Center has new exhibits, new animals and a new look for the boats for the 2015 season. www.nhnature. org or 968-7194
Fri. 1st – Sun. 3rd Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”
Jean’s Playhouse, 34 Papermill Drive, Lincoln. Fri. and Sat. at 7pm, Sun. at 2pm. Playhouse Players stage Noel Coward’s supernatural comedy about wives (of this world and otherwise) fighting over one man! Tickets are $15pp, general admission and are available at the door. 745-2141
Saturday 2nd Rummage Sale
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-2pm. 9687643
5th Annual Bow Wow Fest
Lake Opechee Inn parking lot, 62 Doris Ray Court, Laconia. 8:45am-11:45am. Vendors, face painting, pooch parade, awards, special K-9 guests, K-9 demonstrations and more! Get your picture taken with “Hulk”, the 175 Pitbull from NH! Proceeds will go to benefit local Police K-9 Units. www.wowtrail. org 524-4535
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Spring Fling Craft Fair
Harriman-Hale American Legion Hall, 142 Center Street, Wolfeboro. 9am-3pm. 5694296
Big Band Fundraiser for P.I.C.K.
Lake Opechee Inn & Spa Grand Ball Room, 62 Doris Ray Court, Laconia. 6pm-10pm. 3rd annual Dinner and Dance fundraiser featuring the 18 piece band, Dan Gable & the Abletones, who specialize in music from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. $60pp includes dinner buffet, catered by students from the Lakes Region Community College Culinary Program. 273-0861 or www.pick1.biz
Multi-layer Nuno Felted Flower Class
League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. 10am2pm. Class taught by Nancy Evans. $45 per student. Space is limited. 279-7920 Tuesday 5th
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The Wright Museum, Wolfeboro. Doors open at 6pm, presentation begins at 7pm. Sue talks about the important roles quilters and quilts played in America during WWII. $8pp/ free for members. RSVPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strongly encouraged. 5691212
Wednesday 6th Banjos, Bones and Ballads: The Music and Everyday Lives of 19th Century People
Taylor Communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Woodside Building, 435 Union Ave, Laconia. 6:30pm. Jeff Warner presents songs from the lumber camps, fishing villages and mountaintops of America. Free and open to the public. 524-5600
Cribbage Tournament
Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub, Gilford. Registration 6:30-7pm. Games start at 7:15pm. Weekly cash prizes. Fundraiser to benefit the CafĂŠ DĂŠjĂ vu Pub Mania team for the NH1 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Auction. Every Wednesday until June. 998-1418
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Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 7-9pm. National Geographic Course Part 2. Persons of any experience level are welcomed. www. lrcameraclub.com
Pemi Choral Spring Concert â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Tapestryâ&#x20AC;?
Gilford Community Church, Gilford. 7:30pm. Concert honors the immigrant experience. The program will include personal immigration stories of the family of the choral society members, and readings from relevant PBS broadcasts from the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;97 Orchard Streetâ&#x20AC;?. Admission by donation. 536-1572
Friday 8th Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www. casinoballroom.com 929-4100
The Garcia Project
The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551 or www.flyingmonkeynh.com
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Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 335-1992 or www. rochesteroperahouse.com
Saturday 9th Rummage Sale
Holderness Community Church, 923 US Route 3, Holderness. 9am-2pm. 9687643
The Magic of Mozart â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Piccola Opera
Concord City Auditorium, Concord. 7:30pm. This familyfriendly event will offer some sparkling selections from Mozart operas. $15pp General Admission. Tickets available at Gibsons Book Store, www. piccolaopera.net or at the door.
The Used & Chevelle
Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach. www. casinoballroom.com 929-4100
4th Annual Komen NH Race for the Cure
Race starts and finishes at Strawbery Banke Museum. 5K run or walk race. $35/ runners and walkers, $30/Survivors and $20/children under 12. www.komenvtnh.org/nhrace or 802-362-2733
Walk MS Laconia
Opechee Park, 867 Main Street, Laconia. Check-in at 9am, walk begins at 10am. Participants will walk a fivemile fully accessible route. www.walkmsgne.org or call 1-800-344-4867
Plymouth State University, Plymouth. 3pm. Concert honors the immigrant experience. The program will include personal immigration stories of the family of the choral society members, and readings from relevant PBS broadcasts from the book â&#x20AC;&#x153;97 Orchard Streetâ&#x20AC;?. Tickets can be purchased at the door. 536-1572
Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Brunch
Castle in the Clouds, Moultonborough. 10:30am. Enjoy a delightful meal catered by Hartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catering. Reservations required. $32/ adult, $16/child ages 5-12. 476-5414
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things My Mother Taught Meâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; An Evening of Stories and Songs
Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. Nancy Barry performs her one-woman show. 1-888-245-6374
Tuesday 12th â&#x20AC;&#x153;NHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Long Love-Hate Relationship with its Agricultural Fairsâ&#x20AC;?
Jennie D. Blake School, Ed Amsden Auditorium, 32 Crescent Street, Hill. 7pm. Presented by former Commissioner of Agriculture, Steve Taylor. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. 934-2531
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Red Cross Blood Drive
Bow Lake Grange Hall, 569 Province Road, Strafford. 1-6pm. Sign up at 1-800-7332767 or www.redcrossblood. org You may drop in; however, registration insures a scheduled appointment. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring two forms of ID. 664-9202
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ca, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overseas trashingsowell from 7 her countrymen. Remem- that it should not be acber this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the English cepted until empirical way, which is not as capi- evidence could test it. That test came during talistic as it is in America. People donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk about an eclipse, when light work and money; they talk behaved as Einstein said about interesting things at it would, rather than dinner parties,â&#x20AC;? she told the way it should have the foreign press. And: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I behaved if the existing donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tap into the bad side â&#x20AC;&#x153;consensusâ&#x20AC;? was corof American psychology, rect. That is how scientifwhich is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not achieving enough, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not making ic questions should be enough, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not at the top settled, not by political intimidation. There is of the pile.â&#x20AC;? Paltrow openly despises already plenty of political capitalism and those who weight on the scales, on unabashedly pursue it. the side of those pushStriving for upward eco- ing the â&#x20AC;&#x153;global warmingâ&#x20AC;? nomic mobility is gauche scenario. The fact that â&#x20AC;&#x153;global in the eyes of the left-wing 1 percent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much warmingâ&#x20AC;? models are more fashionable to show not doing a very good manufactured sympathy job of predicting actual for the downtrodden than temperatures has led to to encourage them to lift a shift in rhetoric, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;climate changeâ&#x20AC;? now bethemselves up. Only in the land of make- ing substituted. This is believe is it nobler to simu- an issue that needs to be late being dependent and contested by scientists poor than to aspire to be using science, not political muscle. successful and wealthy. Too many universiMichelle Malkin is the au- ties are too willing to thor of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Culture of Corrup- be stampeded by prestion: Obama and his Team sure groups. Have we of Tax Cheats, Crooks and forgotten Duke UniverCroniesâ&#x20AC;? (Regnery 2010). sityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caving in to a lynch Her e-mail address is mal- mob mentality during the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gang rapeâ&#x20AC;? hoax in kinblog@gmail.com. 2006? Or the University of Virginia doing the same thing more recently? Politicians determined to get their own way by whatever means necessary may have no grand design to destroy freedom, but what they are doing can amount to totalitarianism on the installment plan.
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— OUR PICK FOR BEST CAPTION ENTRY #536 — Runners Up Captions: Lex Luthor FINALLY figures it out. - Randy Taylor, Rochester, NH. Dr. Who moves the old-fashioned way. - Rose Dale, Meredith, NH. Roaming charges? You’ve got to be kidding me. My mobile phone is a lot of work, but the reception is great.
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Guitarist Johnny A. At Rochester Opera House Sat. May 16th at 8pm NH’s Wooden Eye Opens The Show
With a guitar that sings, Johnny A. appears in concert at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, May 16 at 8pm (Doors 7pm). With a blend of styles from rock to jazz to blues mixed with a masterful use of the guitar’s whammy bar, Johnny A. is one of the finest contemporary guitarists. Johnny played with many renowned musicians including Mingo Lewis (Santana), Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and Bobby Whitlock (Derek and the Dominos), before his seven year stint as guitarist and musical director with The J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf. In 2010, Johnny received the Boston Music Award for Blues Artist of the Year. In addition to producing and mixing his recent release Driven, Johnny also plays all the instruments on the album. Portsmouth-based Wooden Eye opens with their unique mix of blues, rock and roll, folk and country that create an Americana sound that is their trademark. The band is Bob Halperin on guitar, mandolin, vocals and diddley bow, Dan Maclellan on bass, Mike “Bullfrog” Rogers on harp and vocals and Joe Rogers on drums. Tickets are $18 and $22 and can be reserved online at Rochester Opera House.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 10-5 and two hours before the show. Cash bar. Patrons under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult. This show is sponsored by TD Bank, Eastern Propane and Oil, Foster’s Daily Democrat, Shaheen and Gordon, P.A. and Norman Vetter Foundations. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. The season continues with the Corvettes on 5/30.
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